Gender-frictive (also known as gender-coarse, gender-sticky and gender-stiff) is a genderfluid individual who experiences a high level of gender friction. Someone who is gender-frictive may also be gender-receptive if they can also experience low levels of gender friction when switching genders. It describes how one's gender(s) behave, rather than what they are composed of.
A high level of gender friction has been described as:
- The feeling when an aircraft lands and/or takes off.
- Two things that are stuck together being pulled apart (the individual from the original gender) with strands of glue still connecting it.
- The gender is reluctant to "let go" and "holds on tightly" for a moment before "releasing" (in this experience of gender friction, one might see this as a gender-spike).
- The gender resists changing, and this is felt in the form of friction/ragged edges.
- The new and old gender struggling for control.
- The unseating of a gender the individual has grown used to, by the new gender.
- A very fast, very raw, intense switching of genders.
Experiences gender-frictives may have include:
- sudden heavy gender dysphoria.
- strong gender euphoria experiences that come from very "hard edges" of genders.
- queasy/uncomfortable gender feelings during gender changes.
- strong alignments with gender, almost tangible genders.
Grammar
Gender-frictive is both a noun and an adjective. For exmaple, you can describe someone as gender-frictive, or you can say they are a gender-frictive/gender-frictive person. Gender-frictive is an identity, rather than a gender terminology, like Gender Friction. This is not the adjectival form of Gender Friction, as Gender Friction is the magnitude/amount of friction in one's gender switches, whereas gender-frictive indicates a high level of Gender Friction.
History
The term was coined by FANDOM wiki user Nemosexual on August 16, 2021. It was coined through the Gender Friction page and has no outside sources.